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CELEBRATION OF 
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY AND OF 
THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

OF THE FOUNDING OF 
LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY 




CUMBERLAND GAP, TENNESSEE 

FEBRUARY 10, 11, 12 

1917 



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CELEBRATION OF LINCOLN'S BIRTH- 
DAY AND OF THE TWENTIETH 
ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING 
OF LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY 
AT CUMBERLAND GAP, TENNESSEE 
FEBRUARY 10, 11, 12, 1917 

A BRAHAM LINCOLN was mountain-born within a 
y~V few miles of the location of the university estab- 
lished in his memory by one of his trusted generals, 
O. O. Howard. 

The purpose of Lincoln Memorial University is to 
afford to the poor boys and girls of the Appalachian 
mountain region and the Nation an opportunity to work 
out the education which will fit them to be Americans of 
the Lincoln type. 

These young people of pure American birth ask no 
charity. They need only opportunity to work into 
citizenship of the type which is the Nation's safeguard. 
They are poor, as Lincoln was poor, in money; they are 
rich, as he was, in the spirit to do. 

Lincoln Memorial University opens the door of oppor- 
tunity. It can meet the pressing throng who seek to 
enter into the life of knowledge only as its scanty facilities 
are expanded. 

These pages are printed to establish the situation, and 
to show the present-day relation of the land and the 
very people of Lincoln to the country he saved. 



Resolutions 



ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY BY THOSE ATTENDING 
THE LINCOLN MEMORL\L UNIVERSITY CELE- 
BRATION, PLEDGING SUPPORT TO THE PRI-:SI- 
DENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

Offered by Hon. Charles A. Towne, former United 
States Senator from Minnesota; seconded by Hon. Leslie 
M. Shaw, former Secretary U. S. Treasury. 

Resolved, By an audience representing every section of 
the Republic, every occupation and profession of its popu- 
lation, and every complexion of its political opinion, 
assembled on the birthday anniversary of Abraham 
Lincoln, in the heart of the mountain and forest country 
that gave him to the world, for the purpose of consecrating 
in his name a great institution of learning to perpetuate 
the memory of his character and service to his country 
and to all mankind, that we hereby send the President of 
the United States, now bearing the weight of a heavier 
responsibility than ever himself, or any of his predecessors 
but Lincoln himself, was called upon to bear, a salutation 
of patriotic sympathy and devotion, and assurance of 
conJBdence in his wisdom and self-restraint, and his cour- 
age, and a pledge that his determination to preserve peace 
so long as it may be kept with honor, but to maintain, if 
need must be, the self-respect and duty of the country at 
every hazard, shall be supported and sustained by the 
united and undaunted citizenship of America. 
Adopted February 12, 1917 

RESOLUTION PASSED ITNANTVIOUSLY BY THE BOYS 
OF UNCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY 

Resolved, That we, the male students of Lincoln Memo- 
rial University, will be ready at a moment's notice to 
enlist under the flag of the United States should war be 
declared by the Congress of the United States, and a call 
made for volunteers by the President of the United States. 
February 12, 1917 



Foreword 



THE SPIRIT OF LINCOLN IN ARMS 

DR. JOHN ^-ESLEY HILL 
Chancellor of Lincoln Memorial University 

At the battle of Marathon, the Athenians, outnumbered ten to 
one by the Persians, achieved a memorable victory and the salvation 
of their country, because, as the fable runs, the spirits of Castor and 
Pollux, their national heroes, led the Grecian charge. 

The annals of every people are full of instances proving how the 
inspiration of the heroic dead, whether through their supposed tem- 
porary return to mortal shape or because of their memorable virtues 
and the wish to emulate them, has stirred the hearts of patriots to 
noble and triumphant action. 

It has remained for America to produce a figure which, embody- 
ing the typical characteristics of our democracy, yet makes appeal 
to the sympathies and the aspiration of all mankind, wherever and 
whenever engaged in the struggles of liberty against despotism. 

In a very true sense, and it is perhaps the most striking fact in 
the entire history of the present war, the cause of the Allies finds its 
deepest inspiration and strongest sanction in the character, the prin- 
ciples, the convictions, the utterances and the achievements of 
Abraham Lincoln. 

Lloyd George, the foremost English statesman of the day, finds 
the most perfect expression of the soul of the present contest for the 
enfranchisement of Europe in the words of our backwoods President, 
which he quotes as the justification of the Entente policy. In the 
opening paragraph of his inaugural address as Premier he says: 
"I should like to quote the well-known words of Abraham Lincoln: 
'We accepted the war for an object, a worthy object. The war will 
end when that object has been attained. Under God, I hope it will 
never end until that time.' " 

It is noteworthy that he did not say Abraham Lincoln, the Ameri- 
can. To Lloyd George, Lincoln appears as a world figure, standing 
in the forefront of a world crisis, his words full of world-wide wisdom. 
When the eyes of the immortal Emancipator were closed in death, 
Stanton, the great War Secretary of the Lincoln Cabinet exclaimed: 
"Now he belongs to the ages," which was but another way of declar- 
ing, "He belongs to Humanity," and therefore is the enshiined spirit 
of democracy. 

In the midst of the successful strivings of a Russian democracy, 
up from the night of centuries of oppression, the bright guiding star 
which glorifies its goal and illumines its pathway has been the life, 
the deeds and political creed of Lincoln. It is the spirit of Lincoln 



LINCOLN MLMORLVL UNIVERSITY 



that has led the United Stiites into the holy crusade of freedom in 
which we have just enlisted, and it will be the spirit of Lincoln in 
arms that shall lea<l the Allied hosts of democracy to a glorious and 
final victory over the legions of autocracy. 

The University down in the Appalachian country which bears 
his name is instinct with his principles. It teaches not only the arts 
and sciences but the fundamentals of character, and the necessarv' 
elements of liberty and self-government. It stands at the intersection 
of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia. It is a veritable bulwark of 
American patriotism. It is little wonder that Lincoln Memorial 
University was the first educational institution in the land to respond 
to the call of the present crisis, signalizing its conscious dedication 
to Lincoln by offering to his great successor in the White House a 
brigade to be known as the Lincoln Sharpshooters, to vindicate on 
the battle-fields of Europe the doctrine on which the American 
Republic is founded. 



Introduction 



THE three days' exercises in honor of the 108th birthday of 
Abraham Lincoln and the Twentieth Anniversary of the found- 
ing of Lincoln Memorial University will rank as the most 
notable Lincoln celebration ever held. 

For three days, the 10th, 11th and 12th of February, the eyes of 
the nation were on this institution nestled in the heart of the Cumber- 
land hills, and for three days the thoughts of Lincoln lovers the world 
over were centered there. 

Notwithstanding the critical phase of national affairs, with the 
coimtry on the verge of war. Senators, Governors, Congressmen and 
men of high position from nearly every state in the Union suspended 
the serious tasks that confronted them to journey to the mountain 
University and join with the officers, faculty and student-body in 
paying homage to the memory of America's greatest man on the 
double anniversary of his birth and that of the institution named for 
him and inspired by him. 

A delegation of about 100 men and women, whose roster included 
names noted from coast to coast, made the trip by special train from 
Washington. Another special train, bearing about the sapae number 
of distinguished visitors, went to Cumberland Gap from Chicago. 
The Washington special made the run direct, while the train from the 
West stopped at Hodgensville, Kentucky, where the party visited 
briefly the birthplace of Lincoln. In order that the Senators and 
Congressmen might be back in Washington to be present for roll- 
call Tuesday, when important legislation was pending, the Wash- 
ington special left on the return trip at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. 
The Chicago delegation remained until 10 o'clock that night. 

The celebration was blessed with excellent weather, and the plans 
of President Hubbell and Chancellor Hill were carried out perfectly. 
The buildings of the University were thrown open to the distinguished 
guests; their welcome was hearty and sincere. For three days states- 
men, financiers, educators, social leaders from the great centers of 
the North, South, East and West, mingled with the mountain boys 
and girls of the University, chatted and sang with them, and listened 
to the polished addresses of many orators — all one in paying tribute 
to the great man, the uplifting influence of whose life was felt by the 
humblest and the greatest. 

The programme for the three days was a remarkable one. The 
best minds in the Nation contributed to it. The brilliant succession 
of addresses by leaders from far and near — men no other sentiment 
than reverence for Lincoln could have brought together — forms a 
notable addition to Lincoln literature — a monument in itself. Every 
phase of Lincoln's life, from his boyhood in the very hills where the 



C LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY 

great gathering was assembled, on through to the tragic end in the 
Nation's Capital, was reviewed, and in the light of recent stirring 
events in the world's progress, Lincoln's pure, unswerving American- 
ism took on a new meaning — became a mightier example. 

But it is in another respect that the celebration was truly epochal, 
for which it will be longest remembered and its effect most widely 
felt. Out of the j)ilgrimage to Cumberland Gap there sprang a de- 
finite, organized movement, sponsored by men of national fame, to 
make this struggling mountain University the greatest living Ameri- 
can memorial to Abraham Lincoln; an institution opening the door 
of educational opportunity to poor American boys and girls the 
country over — national in character, typically American in every 
aim and purpose, and with the example of Abraham Lincoln its 
beacon-light — its guiding star. 

It was announced that a campaign would be launched immediately 
to raise one million dollars as an endowment for the University, with 
that exalted end in view. 

Lincoln Memorial University took on a new dignity by the cele- 
bration. It emerged from the obscurity of a "worthy educational 
endeavor" into a recognized, national educational necessity — a 
powerful, essential instrument in the forging of American citizenship. 

Men who went to Cumberland Gap interested chiefly in the 
opportunity to give expression to their admiration for Lincoln, and 
who knew only vaguely of Lincoln Memorial University, came away 
awakened and enthused, eager volunteers in the great work of estab- 
lishing the institution as the great national monument to the moun- 
tain boy who became the savior of the nation. 

The sober, earnest, hopeful mien of the students; the unstinted 
devotion of the faculty; the record of obstacles overcome and suc- 
cess attained in the face of adversity; the marvelous natural situation 
of the University — these things struck the visitors with impelling 
force. 

For the splendid success of the celebration, too much credit 
cannot be given for the enthusiastic support of the members of the 
Board of Directors, especially Frank A. Seiberling and A. L. Gar- 
ford, whose generosity made it possible. 



What three Presidents of the United 

States have said of Lincoln 

Memorial University 



PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 
There could be no finer memorial to Lincoln 
than this University placed just where you have it. 

THEODORE ROOSEVELT 

PRESIDENT TAFT 
Gen. O. O. Howard gave the last years of his 
life with unstinted devotion to the furtherance 
of the education of the mountain people of the 
South, through the Lmcoln Memorial University 
at Cumberland Gap. It is a worthy object, and 
deserves support and encouragement. 

WM. H. TAPT 



PRESIDENT WILSON 
I have for a long time been genuinely interested 
in the welfare of Lincoln Memorial University. I 
wish I could lend something more than my mere 
personal approval to the fulfilment of your plans. 
May I not take the liberty of biddmg you God- 
speed in them ? WOODROW WILSON 



Extracts from Addresses at Lincoln 
Memorial University Celebration 

Opening Remarks 

DR. (iEOlKlE ALLEN IIUBBELL. President of Lincoln Memorial 
University 

Lincoln Memorial University believes in work, hard work, steady 
work, wisely chosen work, successful work. It believes that every 
student who comes to it should be guided in his efforts, so that he 
may be able and glad to earn a living; that he may have some worthy 
thing to sell which the world wants; and, while the Institution stands 
for a genuine, generous, and broad training in practical and cultural 
lines, its first effort is directed toward providing for every student a 
means of earning a living while he is in school, and in giving him 
those impulses and ambitions which make him glad to render ser- 
vice in return for instruction and living expenses. In a word, here 
"we learn while we earn," and we believe in both the learning and 
the earning. In this institution, more than in most, every' student 
who believes in work, and is willing to work, has the opportunity to 
receive training and to market his labor in exchange for real edu- 
cation. 

What is more natural than that such an institution should abound 
in vital American ideals? 

Welcome from Lincoln's Native State 

GOVERNOR A. O. STANLEY, of Kentucky 

In Lincoln Memorial University you have the opportunity to 
follow the man who was wise, patient as destiny, temperate in all 
things, kind when other men were cruel, gentle when other men 
were truculent, forgiving when other men were vindictive. 

He made manual labor dignified by the destruction of black 
slavery. I am the son of a Confederate brigadier; my people were 
slave-owners, on either side of the house, for generations, and I 
reverently thank God that there is not a man under the Stars and 
Stripes who is not free today. He struck the manacles from the 
wrists and ankles of the slaves, and then the shackles from the 
souls of the owners. Labor became honorable, as manual labor 
never would have become honorable in the South with slavery. He 
opened the doors of industry and labor. Today you can work, work 
with your hands, and other jicople think just as nuich of you. 

Here, under the leadership of your President, and the example of 
this rail-splitter, I hope to see the sons of Virginia, Kentucky and 



LINCOLN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 9 

Tennessee come down from the glory of the mountains, bringing 
with them, as a breath from the heights, strength and inspiration 
to the states they are destined to serve. 

Lincoln Rose to Opportunity 

GEN. COLEMAN DUPONT, New York City. 

Lincoln was not a youthful prodigy. He was just a plain American 
boy — plainer than most — at the beginning of his career. Born where 
life was hard and comforts were meager, he had neither luck nor cir- 
cumstance in his favor. He had as poor a chance as any boy ever 
had to become great, and his success came only through the disci- 
pline of toil. He put his foot on adversity and rose to opportunity. 
He did what any American boy can do and ought to do — make the 
most out of life's chance. 

The people of the great Cumberland hills are of the stock from 
which Lincoln sprang, and among the cabins in these rugged fast- 
nesses are youths whose lives now parallel his early days. We should 
encourage these young mountaineers in the effort they are making, 
so apparent here at Lincoln Memorial University, to acquire an 
education as Lincoln acquired it — by painstaking and persevering 
struggle and sacrifice. 

Kentucky's Foremost Son 

JUDGE HENRY S. BARKER, President University of Kentucky 

Abraham Lincoln was a Kentuckian of the purest Anglo-Saxon 
type, and his life presents the finest example of the Anglo-Saxon at 
his very best. He was the product of all the past of his ancestry and 
developed and matured under the influence of laws as natural and 
inevitable as those of gravitation or repulsion. He was endowed 
with a gigantic body that knew neither weakness nor weariness; an 
intellect, keen, virile, and as direct and sure as the bullet from his 
ancestor's rifle; a heart as pure as a child's and as magnanimous as 
a Bayard's or a Sydney's; and he possessed a courage which, in a 
righteous cause, was as reckless of self as were his forebears who 
followed the raven flags of Hengist and of Horsa. 

The Richest Undeveloped Resource of the South 

DR. J. A. MOREHEAD, President Roanoke College, Salem, Va. 

These people of the Appalachian Mountains have been apart 
from modern educational and economic development. They have 
escaped the blight of the dissipating influences of the civilization of 
the great centers of population, but they have missed also their cur- 
rents of inspiration, training, and culture. 

Many of these mountain people have thus been isolated, lying 



20 LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY 

falUnv, as it were, vi^'orous in mind and body, waiting only for 
inspiration and strength through the open sesame of education. 
Ls not this vigorous original American people truly the richest 
undeveloped resource of the South? Are not leaders of industry, 
physicians, jurists, preachers, statesmen, soldiers, authors, and other 
workers for the common good awaiting discover^' in this undeveloped 
territory of our human kind? Abraham Lincoln furnishes the answer 
to these startling questions. 

The spirit of Lincoln in the PhiKppines 

HON. NEWTON W. GILBERT, former Vicc-Govenior rhilippine Islancb 

In 1898, with, as I believe, the blessing and guidance of Almighty 
God, we carried opportunity to lands less fortunate than our own — 
wittingly, as to those lands near our shores; imwittingiy as to those 
beyond our vision. But the Ruler of nations and of men saw them 
all. He placed a duty upon us which we had not foreseen. That 
duty was to carry the spirit of American institutions, the spirit of 
Abraham Lincoln, to the unfortunate people of the Philippine 
Islands. 

The work is not completed. It is only just begun. But has it not 
been done in the spirit of Lincoln? If his shade, today existent on 
some Heavenly shore, is gifted with prospicience, may we not fondly 
hope that the effort of our count rj'men to carry to our less-favored 
brethren beyond the sea a measure of the opportunity which else 
they could not have had has met with his approval? Shall we not, 
today, in this historic spot, animated by the high purpose of those 
who uphold this institution, permeated by the patriotism of a country 
which in this world crisis counts no cost too great if only we stand 
for righteousness; shall we not, I say, having in mind the well-being 
of those across the sea, whom God has committed to our hands, 
resolve that, with His help, we will dedicate ourselves anew to the 
instilling into every heart on those sun-kissed isles the spirit of 
Abraham Lincoln? 

The Best Tribute to Lincoln 

DR. JOHN WESLEY HILL. Chancellor of Lincoln Memorial University 

Could Lincoln — slandered, maligned, criticized, assailed, and 
assassinated — have heard the faintest eciio of the tumultuous applause 
that now greets his name, the prolonged night through which he 
passed would not have been starless, (^ould McKinley have heard 
the agonizing groans of the Nation above his coffined dust, his 
heart would have been strengthened during the burdensome days 
of the Spanish-American War. 

There is another in our midst today, standing at the center of a 
world crisis. Great interests and issues are revolving about him. 



LINCOLN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 11 

The destiny of the Nation is in his hands. His burden is as great as 
any ever imposed on mortal man. Yet, in the midst of the tumult, he 
is working so silently that we are scarcely conscious of his presence. 
Power is always silent. 

At such a time as this partisanship should disappear, patriotism 
should occupy the foreground, and every man who believes in the 
protection of American rights and the preservation of our national 
self-respect owes it to his citizenship to stand loyally by the President, 
to uphold his hands, and thus to contribute to the solution of the 
great problems which confront him. Loyalty to his successor will 
be our best tribute to Abraham Lincoln. 

Lincoln and Labor 

HON. MARCUS M. MARKS, Borough President of Manhattan, New 
York City 

The spirit of liberty was the controlling genius of Lincoln's life. 
The worker must be free; the chains of slavery broken; every human 
being erect in self-respect, and each working out his own salvation 
with equal opportunity under the law. 

Lincoln never took the paternalistic attitude toward labor. He 
was broader, wiser, more appreciative of the spirit of fraternity. 
Many well-meaning men and women today still commit the error of 
patting labor on the back. So-called welfare work, introduced in 
factory, mine, school, and home, fails of its purpose when superim- 
posed by a would-be philanthropic agency. 

There is at times a suspicion on the part of labor that the cost 
of welfare work is deducted from the wages due. This suspicion 
nullifies the usefulness of the offering. Employers are beginning to 
understand what Lincoln intuitively perceived concerning the 
spirit of liberty and independence of labor. 

Lincoln, the Man of the Forest 

HON. H. S. GRAVES. Chief United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 

Without question, the early life of Abraham Lincoln on the frontier 
had a great influence on his character and helped him in meeting the 
tremendous responsibilities of later years. One of the effects of his 
early life was a deep sympathy, based on the hardest of personal 
experiences, for the pioneer and the people living under frontier 
conditions. It was many years before the purpose of the Nation in 
the handling of its public lands was fully defined, and this largely 
because of the failure to appreciate the real needs of the frontier. 

Finally, however, there was a definite declaration of policy, and 
that was to help in every way possible the men who were willing to 
come upon the public land and develop it. The free homestead law 
is the keynote of the desire of the Nation: namely, that pubHc land 
would be given fr^e to any citizen who would establish, bis home upoi\ 



hi LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY 

it and put tlie land to productive agricultural use. It was eminently 
fitting that the signature that made this great principle a law was 
that of Abraham Lincoln. 

Lincoln's Family Life 

IIOX. JOHN \V. LANGLEY, Member of Congress from Kentucky 

With conflicting stories that have been written and others that 
are tradition only, there are some things perhaps that we cannot 
with certainty know about Lincoln's family life. That he was a 
chivalrous devotee at the shrine of love, those who knew him best 
bear conclusive testimony. Sufficient i)roof alone of that is found in 
his well-authenticated words as he hastened to carry first to his 
beloved Mary the news of his nomination for the presidency. No 
student of Lincoln's history has failed to note his transcendent, 
overj)owering adoration for his mother. The memory of her seems to 
have been the one ever-lustrous, fixed star in the firmament of his 
life, which fact alone is a greater honor to his memory than any 
tribute within the sphere of human power. His humble birth, his 
struggles with poverty, the romance of his marriage, his life as 
husband and father, his gradual rise to greatness and to fame, all 
embody priceless lessons to the young men of the Nation. 

Lincoln, the Man of the People 

HON. ROBERT L. OWEN, Senator from Oklahoma 

From many states we come to honor Lincoln's memory. From 
abject poverty to the presidential chair he came. For his great 
physical strength and courage, for his rugged honesty and industry, 
he was respected. For his commanding intellect, compelling logic, 
he was honored by those who knew him. For his utter unselfishness 
and true patriotism, he was admired. For his gentleness and ten- 
derness to others, he was beloved. For his magnificent service in 
saving the Union, in abolishing human slavery, he is immortal. 

Let us not come merely to burn incense in memory of his great 
human virtues, but let us, with heartfelt patriotism, cultivate the 
principles of which he was the great exemplar, and dedicate ourselves 
to make these principles a vital force in promoting the happiness of 
our beloved countrymen. 

Lincoln and Preparedness 

MAJOR LOUIS LIVINGSTON SEAMAN, New York 

The great tragedy of Europe has shaken the foundation of the 
world, and its result will })e felt in every countn,' of the globe, how- 
ever small and wherever situated. The safety of our country lies 
in the application and adoj)tion of universal training and service to 
the flag, where rich and poor shall serve alike, side by side, with equal 



LINCOLN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 13 

rights, the rights which form the foundation of democracy. As 
stated by the immortal Lincoln, "I go for all sharing the privileges 
of government who assist in bearing its burdens," Lincoln also 
reminded us that "many a free country has lost its liberties by fail- 
ing to protect them." Nothing is truer than that eternal vigilance 
is the price of freedom 

Lincoln's Farewell Speech at Springfield 

HON. WILLIAM P. BORLAND, Member of Congress from Missouri 

Behind the wonderful pathos of that leave-taking; behind the 
wealth of human feeling that breathes in every word; behind the 
sense of grave responsibility that rested on him; behind the deadly 
peril of the moment — perilous to his country and more immediately 
perilous to himself — we catch a glimpse of the true Lincoln. Amid 
difficulties too great for human wisdom, his one reliance was in God — 
that God who could go with him to Washington and remain with his 
neighbors in Springfield, and be everywhere for good; the God who 
molds the destiny of nations and who heals the sorrows of friends. 

Lincoln's Sense of Justice 

DR. S. J. McPHERSON, Headmaster Lawrenceville (N. J.) School for Boys 

Abraham Lincoln was born with a sense of justice, mingled with 
the fires of kindness and sympathy. If I were to be compelled to 
limit myself to the quality, the greatest quality in man, it would be 
the quality of justice, mingled with sympathy. He was born with a 
mental hunger. Another quality Lincoln was born with, or developed 
early, was an absolute faith in the supremacy and final triumph of 
the moral forces. It seems to me that was the greatest thing in him, 
from any standpoint. 

This is the age that rings the changes of praise for "efficiency" 
until it becomes heartless, inhuman and brutal; what Lincoln had 
was the efficiency that is nourished by reticence and disinfected of 
selfishness. This was one of the things that made him great. 

Lincoln the Champion of the Average Man 

HON. F. S. PURNELL, Member of Congress from Indiana 

If there is one quality in Abraham Lincoln that has impressed 
me more than another, it is the fact that he stands out in history as 
the champion of the average man. 

Lincoln sought to give the boy who carried the burden an oppor- 
tunity. He sought to give the man without a chance that chance; to 
do something for the average man. And if there is one thing that the 
average man and boy and girl should be thankful for, it is that 
Lincoln so lived and died as to help them with their burden, even to 
the present day. 



U LIX(X)L\ MEMORIAI. IMVERSITV 

Lincoln, the Model Man 

HON. GEORGE A. LOID. Memljer of Congress from Michigan 

These lines came to me on the train when the programmes were 
passed to us, and now come to me again. I do not know who wrote 
them, but they have long been in my memory: 

"Tall, swart, ungainly, gaunt, he stood before us, 
Chaffed by the mob for his unsightlinesa; 
Now like a very God he towers o'er us. 
Beloved for his tender knightliness. 
A laughing-sto<k his figure wlien we knew him, 
A shrine for all that's best in us since then. 
Revering e'en the blessed soil which grew him, 
A model for all hb fellow-men." 

An Appreciation of Abraham Lincoln 

FRANK A. SEIBERLING, President Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. 

Lincoln was, all in all, the greatest man our country has produced, 
and he will stand for all time among the world's very greatest. What 
he was and what he stood for are ours, to use in our lives and to 
employ in the making of our own characters. He was without osten- 
tation. His life was simple, and he took pride in his log-cabin origin. 
He was ambitious. He educated and developed himself in spite of 
innumerable obstacles. He was not afraid of hard work. His con- 
temporaries knew him as the "Rail-Splitt€r." 

When his life's great crisis came, when civil war clouded the land — 
it was then that the real greatness of him was manifested. He was 
not quarrelsome, or a quibbler. He had no hates. He forgave his 
enemies. 

Above all, he was steadfast in his allegiance to a great ideal. 
Nothing could shake his faith. No disaster made him falter. And 
he inspired those about him — and won. 

Lincoln's Greatest Memorial 

HON. HENRY R. RATHBONE. President Hamilton Club, Chicago, El. 

I stood a little while ago at the foot of that magnificent monu- 
ment reared to the memorj^ of the most beloved of our Americans 
by a loving and grateful people at his home in Springfield, 111.; 
I stood yesterday beside the log cabin in which he was born at 
Hodgensville, Ky.; and they both seemed to me to be pointing the 
way to higher and better things. As I stood there, I thought of his 
character and of his career, and this thought came to me: If our 
great leader were alive today, what would please him most.'^ 

I believe what would gratify him would be to see us — men, 
women, and children — commemorating his devotion to duty, his 
courage in standing for the right, that true spirit of j)atriotism which 
says, **My country, 'tis of thee." 



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Lincoln the Progressive 

HON. JOHN A. ELSTON, Member of Congress from California 

The thought has come to me, called by the suggestion of one of 
the previous speakers, that Lincoln was a conservative; that in his 
attitude toward the questions of his day he took a conservative view. 
In many respects, I think if Lincoln were here today, he would be a 
conservative, but on other questions, I believe he would be ranked as 
a progressive. I am not drawing any particular implication; I 
merely ask you to keep this thought in your minds when you come 
to search into the questions of the day, when you may make your 
choice on public issues. 

Lincoln at the Front 

HON. SYDNEY ANDERSON, Member of Congress from Minnesota 

Greatness is never better exemplified than in its relation to the 
common people and the common things of life. 

This truth was illustrated and illuminated on those rare occasions 
when, at the front, Mr. Lincoln came into direct contact with the 
great body of the patriotic citizen soldiery of x\merica. 

In their attitude and greeting to their Commander-in-chief, 
veneration, devotion, and affection mingled, as greatness, humanity, 
and consideration mingled in him. As he was great, so they revered 
him; as he was humane, so they were devoted to his cause; as he 
was considerate, so they loved him; as he taught them that a good 
war is preferable to a bad peace, so they fought bravely and died 
gloriously. 

The Secret of Lincoln^s Oratory 

JOHN WARREN HUJL, former Assistant District Attorney, New York City 
Lincoln's success as an orator depended, first, on what he had to 
say, and second, on the way in which he said it. Mr. Lincoln's style 
plus his individuality made him an orator of rare persuasiveness. 

He made no attempt to cater to the artistic in framing his sen- 
tences. Simplicity is the genius of art. It was his honest determina- 
tion to make himself understood, which made him the posssesor of a 
style so finished that the University of Oxford, seeking specimens of 
perfect English, has taken from this side of the Atlantic but one 
specimen, and that is Mr. Lincoln's Gettysburg speech. 

But style alone would not have made Lincoln the successful ora- 
tor. A man lacking the fire of Patrick Henry could have asked for 
liberty or death until the crack of doom without stirring the emotions 
of his audience to the desired depths. Lincoln, the orator, had more 
than style. He had a personality that enswathed his audience, held 
it spellbound, and forced its emotions into instantaneous sympathy 
with his. 



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Lincoln and Thrift 

MILTON W. HARRISOX, Secretary American Bankers' Association 

Some basic reason must he rcsponsiWlc for the making of tliis 
man. Was he predestined? Was he horn for a peculiar purpose? No. 
Tlie statesman he afterward l)ecame never entered his mind when in 
the httle hght of the smoldering logs he strained his eyes to read and 
to analyze his l)orrowed books. The fact that the elements within 
him were so well mixed, producing greatness, depended largely upon 
habits formed in early youth. The thrift of Lincoln was mighty, for 
it was developed in persistence, dogged determination, and tenacity 
of pur|)ose. 

Do you not see this thrift of Lincoln responsible for his vision of 
the future of his country', of our country — a country with an unprece- 
dented foreign and domestic trade, a country of unlimited resources, 
a country of freedom, bound closely together by unbreakable ties of 
national integrity, individual independence and world influence for 
right, pointing forever to the Great Emancipator by whom American 
youth is inspired to greater thrift and truer living? 

Lincoln the Orator 

HON. CHARLES IL SLOAN, ^Te^lbcr of Congress from Nebraska 

Throughout Lincoln's speeches, either in debate with Douglas, or 
at Cooper Union, or later in his masterpiece at Gettysburg, his expres- 
sion \<'as lucid and strong; his embellishment was through ideas rather 
than words. These illuminated rather than adorned his central prop- 
osition. On the last-mentioned occasion Lincoln underwent the 
supreme oratorical test. 

Daniel Webster, who divides with Edmund Burke the oratorical 
honors of the English tongue, said, "True eloquence rests in the 
occasion, in the theme, and in the man." The occasion was the 
gathering of the Nation's greatest to commemorate the mightiest 
battle of the great war. It was on that field of fearful carnage the 
speech was made by the central figure of the triumphant North. 
He stood the test. He spoke as man had not spoken since Paul 
addressed the Athenians on Mars Hill. Lincoln spoke with the bold- 
ness of Paul and the authority of the Nazarene. It was the third in 
point of time of the three great short speeches of earth — Hebrew, 
Greek, American. 

Lincoln, the "Hoosier" 

HON. MERRILL MOORES. Member of Congress from Indiana 

All the formal schooling that Lincoln ever had, not amounting to 
one year in all, he received while he lived in Indiana. But Lincoln 
did not need to go to school to learn to be a student. To him the 



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wilds were a university and Nature his best teacher. He was a student 
all his life, and everybody and everything were to him teachers. 
He was a lover of books, however, and read every one that his hands 
fell upon and reread some of them until he literally wore them out. 
Well does the Hoosier state have reason to be proud of the part 
she contributed in shaping this master mind for the discharge of the 
greatest responsibilities that have ever fallen to the lot of one maa 
since the birth of the Nation. 

The Great Men of Our History 

HON. NORMAN C. RAFF, Canton, Ohio 

The earnest and serious tone of this morning's meeting, inspired 
by the presence of these fine young men and women of Lincoln 
Memorial University, has driven from our minds the light, entertain- 
ing things we had thought to deliver this afternoon and has concen- 
trated our faculties and our imaginations upon things deeper and 
better. 

My own thoughts have been turned to the men who have, by 
God's providence I believe, appeared in all the great crises of this 
land of ours, to save it, to inspire it, to cement it into one people. 

We now see how Washington arose just when he was needed to 
save America from selfish monarchy; how Lincoln came to free our 
land from slavery forever; how William McKinley — from whose little 
city of Canton, Ohio, I am proud to come — arose, in God's provi- 
dence, to lead us and to set before us a Christian example which will 
gain glory and luster with the years. There are other great and splen- 
did men whom I might name in our short history of a century and a 
quarter, but let this suffice now. Let me add, however, at this very 
time there is a man who has been called to meet a great problem, 
by the providence of God — the man who now sits at the head of our 
Government — Woodrow Wilson. 

Lincoln the Conservative 

HON. LESLIE M. SHAW, former Secretary of the Treasury 

Considerable has been said concerning what Mr. Lincoln believed 
and taught and did. The following observations are with reference 
to what he did not believe or do. 

He was not an abolitionist. He never belonged to or affiliated 
with the Abolition Party. The platform upon which Mr. Lincoln 
was elected was not an abolition platform. Mr. Lincoln set his face 
strongly against the spread of slavery, and his party promised that 
all free soil should remain free. "Thus far, but no farther," was his 
position. 

It is undoubtedly true that Mr. Lincoln hoped for and expected 
the ultimate abolishment of slavery, for he expressed the opinion that 



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the Nation could not continue part slave and part free. But, if he 
ever so much as intiniat(Ml how that end niiKht be attained, it has 
never been recorde<l. It is noteworthy, however, that he signed the 
Emancipation Prt)clamation with many misgivings and after much 
delay. The abolition of slavery by proclamation was a war measure 
and an incident of the war. The states that sought severance from 
the Inion were quite as much displeased on account of the protective 
tariff as ui)on the issue of slavery. The Constitution of the Con- 
federacy prohibited a protective tariff and guaranteed slaven,'. 

Mr. Lincoln believed in the (iovernment as founded by the fathers. 
He was neither a revolutionist nor an evolutionist in government or 
in religion. He believed in three coordinate branches of govern- 
ment, and he did not believe in any subordinate branch. He did not 
believe that the Judiciary should advise the Congress or the Execu- 
tive. He did not believe that the Congress should interfere with the 
interpretation or the administration of the laws which it saw fit to 
enact, and he did not believe the Executive should attempt to dic- 
tate to the courts or make appointments to the bench with a \new of 
securing certain interpretations of statutes, nor did he believe that 
the Executive should coerce the Congress or lobby the enactment of 
laws. In other words, Mr. Lincoln was a conservative of the most 
pronounced type, an uncompromising protectionist, and an American. 
He believed in peace, but peace with victory. 

Lincoln as I Knew Him 

HON. HENRY CLEWS, New York 

The first time I ever saw Abraham Lincoln was at the great 
patriotic meeting in Cooper Union, New York. He aroused tremen- 
dous enthusiasm because he made everyone present feel that he was 
an honest and sincere patriot, and that he could be trusted to lead the 
Nation on to victory and save the Union, then already threatened 
by the specter of Secession, 

We honor Abraham Lincoln as one of the best, and perhaps the 
greatest of Americans, and in him the world sees one of the grandest 
figures in all history'. The need of the hour is the spirit of Lincoln 
in our national life. His name is the synonym of patriotism, courage, 
progress, preparedness, and democracy. 

Lincoln's Great-heartedness 

JOE MITCHELL CH APPLE, Editor of the National Maj?azine. Boston, 
Mass. 

Lincoln lives — a breathing, pulsating personality that belongs to 
the ages! The verv throbbing of his heart will go on and on for 
eternity, as long as the world loves wisdom, justice, and mercy. In 
the great world tragedy of today, in the far-off Balkans, on the 
steppes of Russia, in the trenches, permeating every part of this 



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earth, as the sunhght itself, is the great-heartedness of Lincoln, point- 
ing the way to the Promised Land of Eternal Peace, a peace that will 
endure because tempered with wisdom, justice, and mercy. The 
crowning aureole of Abraham Lincoln's career has now spanned four 
generations, and it is being felt today. It will go on, endless and 
eternal as the sun, because his great-heartedness has the quality 
of the sun itself, which gives and sustains life, and is the promise 
of immortality ! 

Lincoln and Play 

J. HORACE McFARLAND, President of the American Civic Association 

Some writers have built up an impossible Lincoln — "a man of 
sorrows and acquainted with grief" — one whose face was always in 
lines of sadness, one who bore his heavy burdens with groanings and 
tears. I want to urge that Lincoln could not have borne these burdens 
if he had not been the very converse of the sad and gloomy leader 
impossibly depicted by those who failed to realize that he Imew the 
sustaining power of cheer as well as of prayer. The Christ from whom 
the little children had to be chased away by short-sighted disciples, 
and who said, "Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid 
them not," was no more a gloomy Christ than Lincoln was a man 
of gloom. How could he be gloomy to whom children and animals 
instinctively turned? 

Let us realize that cheerful Lincoln bore his burdens, not only un- 
complainingly, but in such fashion that he could in addition lighten 
the burdens of others, as only they could be lightened by that diver- 
sion, that turning aside, which meant the noblest, finest form of play. 

Lincoln at Five Points Mission 

HON. HOMER P. SNYDER, Member of Congress from New York 

One of the most famous addresses, if not the most famous, of 
Abraham Lincoln was made in the Cooper Union, New York, on the 
evening of Monday, February 27, 1860. On the evening of the 26th, 
Lincoln, apparently without previous notice and perhaps without 
full intention, addressed a Sunday-school meeting at the Five Points, 
New York. This location was, at the time, deemed a criminal resort, 
the block embracing it having fifty -nine buildings with 1,520 in- 
habitants, of whom 812 were Irish, 218 German, 168 Italian, and 
159 Poles. Of the 920 adults, 605 could neither read nor write. The 
Home Missionary Society conducted a Sunday-school at the "Five 
Points," and during the meeting of that school Lincoln appeared 
and was invited to speak. No one knew who he was. The fervor of 
his delivery stirred those present, and when he indicated that he 
was about to discontinue his remarks, a chorus of voices exclaimed 
"Goon!" 



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As the meeting? clo.so(i, he quietly proceeded to leave the room, 
when he was asked for liis name. The answer, according to Hana- 
ford in her "Life of Lincoln," was given just above a whisper, "I am 
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois." 

The Monument of a Nation 

SENATOR GEORGE \\. NORRIS, of Nebraska 

In answer to the call of Abraham Lincoln, from the farms of the 
West, from the Buckeye hills, from the Keystone mines, from the 
workshops of New England, came a million brave and patriotic men. 
Again that Commander spoke, and the mighty statue of liberty was 
raised to its solid foundation where it stands today — the glorj' of 
a liberated race, the pride of a reunited country, the admiration of 
an enlightened world — and there it is to remain, as long as the spirit 
of liberty burns within the human breast, eternal as the heavens. 

Lincoln as an Economist 

HON. JAMES A. FREAR, Member of Congress from Wisconsin 

"Honest Abe Lincoln" was a sobriquet, earned by integrity of 
purpose in business, politics, and social dealings, and one illustration 
discloses Lincoln's clearness of vision on economics. Political parties 
have won and lost campaigns on the tariff issue. In recent years the 
tariff has overshadowed all other economic questions in politics, so 
that libraries have been written on this one subject and months given 
over to public debate. Volumes are sometimes contained in a simple 
statement, and no man equaled Lincoln in homely and comprehensive 
power of description. 

Lincoln was honest intellectually as well as morally, and to that 
one fact he owed the marvelous success which finally crowned his 
career with the Presidency. As an economist, moralist, statesman, 
and philosopher, he struck true every time. He held the full confi- 
dence of his people because he was one of the people from rail-split- 
ting days down to the end. He knew men in every walk of life and 
they knew him. In that fact lay the power and charm which made 
him the man of the hour — the greatest of all in his day or ours, be- 
cause he was among the humblest. 

Lincoln's Love of Country 

HON. KREDERICK C. IHCKS. Member of Congress from New York 

In the crisis through which the Nation is passing, let us keep con- 
stantly before us the memory and deeds of Lincoln; let his unswerv- 
ing courage and lofty patriotism be our guide in this hour of trial 
and tribulation. We may be divided upon issues affecting our do- 
mestic policy, but upon the preservation of the rights and dignity of 



LINCOLN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 21 

the Nation there can be no division. Upon that subject we stand 
united as Americans, and our determination to maintain absolute 
and inviolate the honor of the flag must arise superior to all prejudice 
for or against any of the contending powers, superior now and always 
to the selfish interests of other nations. Let the spirit of Lincoln 
the patriot, Lincoln the American, strengthen our hands and give 
courage to our hearts, and enable us to face the problems of the 
present as he met those of the past, with the full measure of devotion 
to our country. 

Lincoln's Democracy 

GOVERNOR SAMUEL W. McCALL, of Massachusetts 

The mystery of Abraham Lincoln survives in spite of the libraries 
that have been written about him. He did his life-work in the light 
of a luminous time when secrecy was not long possible and when the 
incantations of the worker of miracles could impose upon no one. 
Yet he has the look of a demi-god of an age of myths. He seems both 
a mystery and a miracle. From the lowly depths of the valleys where 
obscurity mantles itself in its deepest gloom, he emerged into the 
sunlight and became the savior and uncrowned ruler of his country 
and the topmost figure of the world. 

No man ever sprang from a lowlier origin and reached a height 
so dazzling. He was the incarnation of democracy and of a democracy 
that is the synonym of humanity. 

The Power of Lincoln's Example 

PROFESSOR M. V. O'SHEA, of the University of Wisconsin 

A year ago I undertook an investigation to determine what is the 
influence of the distinguished men of history and of characters of 
fiction upon people now living. I asked many students in the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin to analyze their experience and to list men and 
women in history, ancient or modern, or any character in fiction who 
had influenced them for good or ill. With 97 per cent of all the per- 
sons responding, the name mentioned as that of the one who had 
made the strongest appeal was the name of the man whose memory 
we are today celebrating. 

As I look at Lincoln's life and education, I realize that, even with 
his meager schooling, he still wrote the purest English that has been 
produced in the language, and in every way he exhibited the highest 
qualities of individual development, and I believe the reason is that 
throughout his life he remained simple, docile, and teachable. Knowl- 
edge always bred enthusiasm in him, and he took advantage of every 
opportunity to add to his store, and particularly to apply it to the 
practical situations in life. 



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The "Emancipator" 

I)U. WILLIAM A. BURCH, representing the Hamilton Club, Chicago. 111. 

In the fall of 1860 the autocrats of Europe laughed to see an un- 
known village attorney called to the helm of the American govern- 
ment at a critical moment. They rejoiced and read the doom of 
democracy. More wonderful still, loyal papers made cartoons of 
"Honest Abe," and orators, headed by that prince of men whose 
head never went wrong but in this case, AVendell Phillips, hooted 
him to scorn. Four years later when Lincoln fell a martyr to the 
cause of human liberty, queens and princes wept and called him 
great; their legislative bodies adjourned in token of honor; Europe 
and America's singers and orators placed tributes at his bier, and 
Lincoln's name became the crowning glory of the nineteenth 
century. 

Is this all? Is "the powerful debater" or the "war president" the 
measure of the stature of this man.' Not by these but by "Emanci- 
pator" shall he be known to the yet unborn. 

Lincoln and the South 

DR. W. S. CURRELL, President University of South Carolina, Columbia, 
S. C. 

When Lincoln died, the South lost her most generous foe, nay, 
even more than that — her best friend. Whatever controversies may 
have arisen about the various issues of the war, and however adverse 
may be the criticisms of Lincoln's individual acts, it is his character 
that counts in the final estimate. His firmness, tact, sturdy com- 
mon sense, generosity, kindliness, keen sense of humor, wonderful 
knowledge of the popular will, and skill in guiding the opinions of the 
people, would have triumphed over every obstacle. The South would 
have recovered from the ravages of war at least a decade before she 
did, and the greatest of all her problems, the race problem, would 
have been much nearer to a satisfactory solution than it is today had 
his life been extended. 

A Leader Divinely Appointed 

HON. MAX PAM, of Chicago 

In some inscrutable way this Republic, ever since its birth, was 
destined to struggle for and become the champion of liberty. 

The struggle under Washington found cohesion and practical 
unanimity amongst his people. 

Under Lincoln, so bitter and acrimonious was the feeling, so 
strong was the dissension, that brother fought brother, father fought 
son, neighlwr was arrayed against neighbor, with a rancor and hatred 
that made the task of Lincoln incomparable and well nigh impossible. 

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LINCOLN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 23 

suffered a death-blow. It became imperative that this great RepubHc 
should endure. To meet this overpowering necessity, Providence 
provided the man. 

Men may differ in the interpretation to be given the term "im- 
mortahty," but all agree that so far as that state of existence after 
death can be appreciated in this world, it obtains in the instance of 
Abraham Lincoln. 

Lincoln's Story a Stimulus 

HON. SCOTT FERRIS, Member of Congress from Oklahoma 

Many distinguished men and women have journeyed hundreds 
of miles to pay their respects to this institution and to the name and 
memory of Abraham Lincoln. 

Abraham Lincoln lived from 1809 to 1865, a period of only fifty- 
six years. To my mind, he accomplished more in that short, fleeting 
fifty-six years than did any longer life that history has yet recorded. 
He rose from the direst obscurity and the most pathetic conditions, 
from the very bottom round of the ladder to the very topmost round. 
It seems to me that his life, character and achievements must of 
necessity be the greatest stimulus to boys and girls struggling for a 
start in life that could possibly be found. 

The Growing Influence of Lincoln 

HON. THOMAS GALLAGHER, Member of Congress from Illinois 

As the years go by, the influence of Abraham Lincoln will grow, 
and the example he has set will point the way to the youth of coming 
generations. His high character and his great work to preserve the 
Union will live forever. 

Your education here is only the beginning. In the years to come 
you will face harder problems than any that you now have to solve. 
We are all, day after day, learning lessons in that great school of 
experience that Lincoln attended — the great school of life. The 
whole world is a school in which all must learn the lessons of life — 
hard lessons to some, easy lessons to others, but lessons to all. It 
is a great school that never closes until the end of life, not until the 
scholars lay down the burden of existence, be it light or heavy. 

The Lincoln Memorial University of the Future 

ROBERT L. KING AID, Lincoln Memorial University. '15 

When one understands that the restless spirit that glows in the 
breast of the mountain youth is ofttimes his only capital, the great- 
ness of our University will be better comprehended. The greatest 
heritage of these young people is an intensity of ambition which is 
acutely sensitive to all kindling impulses and which makes their 



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limitations hard to bear. This ambition pushes them l^eyonci the 
Hmits of their home communities and develops within them desires 
which need only to be directed alon^ the proi)er ways of endeavor. 
But now the light of hope has dawned, and the thrill that comes 
from an opportunity understood is being registered in the responsive 
hearts of the boys and girls in our southern hills. No longer will it 
be necessary for them to grow up with their ambitions unsatisfied 
and their hopes ruthlessly crushed to the earth. The prayer that has 
been ascending from these hills for nearly two centuries is being 
answered. Lincoln Memorial University is bringing to our people 
the boon for which they have sought all these years. 

A Fitting Monument to Lincoln 

HON. JAMES V. McCLINTIC. Member of Congress from Oklahoma 

To my mind no greater honor could be paid to Abraham Lincoln 
than Lincoln Memorial University, the gateway to opportunity for 
poor but ambitious boys and girls the country over. 

When I learned that this wooden building, so tastefully decorated 
with mountain evergreens, represented the work of these mountain 
youths, its simplicity brought to my mind a beautiful and striking 
similarity with the plain, true, unvarnished character of the man 
whom we are here today to honor. I know of no other place in our 
Nation where such opportunities are offered to a class of humanity 
that is hungry for knowledge, and I predict that this occasion will 
go down in history as the beginning of the movement which will 
ultimately result in making this one of the greatest institutions of 
learning in the United States. 

The Example of Lincoln 

SENATOR JAMES E. WATSON, of Indiana 

It is altogether fitting and proper that this institution should be 
honored by the name of Lincoln, that it should be devoted to the 
moral training and the mental development of the youth of the North 
and South alike. 

To this end, how fortunately situated it is ! Fortunate in that it 
is an institution of learning, for knowledge is the very life of the 
Republic, the breath of its nostrils, the throb of its heart, for the 
fullest fruition of cfiuality can never be realized in any land where 
slothful ness abounds or ignorance enslaves. 

Fortunate, too, in that it is located at this gateway between the 
North and South. Here it will be instrumental in eradicating the 
last vestiges of the Civil War. Here will come sons of the men who 
fought in Ijlue and sons of the men who fought in gray. 

Here, forgetting the past, they will be mindful only of the future 
of the land. Here they will be animated by a common enthusiasm 



LINCOLN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 25 

and inspired by a common patriotism. Here, looking out from one 
side upon the graves of Union patriots and looking out from the other 
side upon the tombs of Confederate heroes, they will receive an added 
inspiration from both, and each and all will be impelled to a renewed 
devotion to their country's cause. 

The Need for Mountain Men 

HON. FRED A. BRITTEN. Member of Congress from Illinois 

The Nation needs the sort of men these giant hills are breeding — 
boys of the Lincoln type, born here in the mountains, away from the 
temptations and pitfalls of the city, breathing the pure air of the 
Appalachians and working out-of-doors as Nature intended man to 
work. What an opportunity for physical health you have; what an 
advantage over the city -bred boys and girls ! 

The country needs just the sort of men I see before me tonight. 
The Army and the Navy are calling to you, reaching to you with 
outstretched arms. We want young men of your physique and your 
character, not as enlisted men, but as officers, in West Point and in 
Annapolis. 

Lincoln University a Living Memorial 

HON. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON, Mayor of Chicago 

Marble and bronze have been employed for ages to proclaim the 
mighty deeds and accomplishments of one generation to those that 
follow. Such memorials, however, look to the past rather than point 
the way to the future; they speak of a departed glory rather than of 
further and greater achievements to be accomplished; they constitute 
an epitaph rather than a rule of action. 

This institution presents a new idea in memorials, that of making 
a memorial instinct with life and eloquent with a mighty purpose; to 
incarnate, as it were, the spirit of the departed into the monument, 
to the end that through it other Lincolns may be brought from 
obscurity into useful careers, even as the great son of Kentucky and 
Illinois raised himself from lowly birth to deathless renown. It offers 
education to his kind of people — the "common people," if you 
please — of whom he said, "God must have loved them or He wouldn't 
have made so many of them." 

Lincoln's Growing Fame 

CAPTAIN C. C. CALHOUN, Washington, D. C. 

With all the light of the most brilliant half-century the world has 
ever known, and the unquestioned testimony of recorded events to 
make clear what Lincoln was and what he did, it is amazing to find 
that from out the conditions in which he lived there could have come 



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such a unique and striking character, coinhining so many of the 
cardinal virtues of heart and soul with the i)rofoundest statesman- 
ship, mental acumen, political sagacity, judicial faculties, and broad 
humanity; gentle, yet firm; charitable, yet just; in high places modest, 
and in death sublime. In it all, and through it all, he was father, 
humanitarian, patriot, martyr. 

May these ample halls, this campus, and this entire institution 
be pervaded with the great spirit of the immortal Lincoln. 

Lincoln the Embodiment of Americanism 

BISHOP S.VMUEL FALLOWS. Chicago. 111. 

I do not care how many orations are delivered, tributes paid, or 
volumes written about the life of Abraham Lincoln; all of them may 
be compressed into one sentiment or expression. Lincoln was, and 
is, embodied Americanism. Before you are the pictures of two men. 
One was my Commander-in-chief, the other was my Commander 
in the Army of Tennessee. That noble man, General Howard, had 
on his heart and mind the conception of this great and growing insti- 
tution. Again and again I have conversed with him regarding it. 
The last service that he was ever to perform for the Army of Ten- 
nessee was an address that he was to give it, and this University was 
to have been his theme. Three weeks before the Army of Tennessee 
met, he slept that last long sleep, but this University was on his 
heart, and he is still living, as the great man among the greatest men 
of the world is still living, and I feel in my heart of hearts that they 
have been together, and that they have not lost their love for the 
Nation they both helped to save, or for this institution which they 
heli)ed to create. 

A Real American University 

HON. JAMES C. Mclaughlin, Member of Congress from Michigan 

When I consider the possibilities of this institution, situated here 
in the heart of the region from which Lincoln came, I cannot help 
but feel that this great educational project should take its place as 
the greatest American monument to Abraham Lincoln. 

Forward to Lincoln 

HON. JACOB E. MEFvKER, Member of Congress from Missomi 

Lincoln thought a thing through before he expressed an opinion. 
He studied a few great books, lie pondered much, lie gave us no 
unripened fruits of his mind. He stood hard and fast upon sound 
principles in matters of government, religion, and everj'thing else. 
He was not a faddist. 

The great service which this University is to render to you, and 



LINCOLN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 27 

through you to America, is the teaching you to think soundly; to 
have reverence for the truth; to speak with fearless candor the truth 
as you understand the truth; always to keep your head cool and your 
heart warm; and to honor God by honoring every one of His children 
who honestly toils in life's struggle. 

It shall be my purpose in the future to persuade men of means, 
be their possessions large or small, that aid rendered to this institu- 
tion will be most worthily bestowed upon those who in the days to 
come are to carry the message of life's eternal verities to mankind. 
May the hallowed memory of the simple-minded, kindly hearted 
Genius of the Common Man be as a benediction upon Lincoln Memo- 
rial University forevermore. 

Hidden Mountain Treasure 

HON. CALEB POWERS, Member of Congress from Kentucky 

Amid these towering Appalachian hills, where Abraham Lincoln 
lived as a boy — here in this very region — is the greatest reservoir 
of pure, unadulterated Anglo-Saxon blood to be found anywhere 
under the folds of Old Glory ! The trouble is that we have been bottled 
up, so to speak; there was no way for our ancestors to know the differ- 
ence between this mountain country, with its natural disadvantages, 
with its handicaps, and the conditions out yonder in the eastern states 
or in the territory to the northwest out of which have come the 
great states of Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois. Our ancestors were here, 
far removed from the marts of trade, from the great thought centers 
of the world, with no vehicles of transportation, no lakes, no rail- 
roads, no roads worthy of the name. 

But better days are at hand. It is such endeavors as the Lincoln 
Memorial University that are not only spreading the light of educa- 
tion among the mountain people, but are bringing the rest of the 
country into a better realization of the great treasure of honorable 
manhood and womanhood that is stored here. 

Lincoln His Own University 

HON. CHARLES A. TOWNE, former Senator from Minnesota 

Genius, as usually conceived, is a crystal; you cannot appropriate 
a portion of it. Common sense is a harmonious aggregate of access- 
ible particles; any of us can furnish some of them, and all of us can 
learn to assemble what we have. Genius is inimitable. Common 
sense ma^ be assimilated. It is vain to tell your son to be like Shake- 
speare; he may hold horses or w^atch automobiles outside a theater 
till the end of his days and never be able to write Hamlet. Tell him 
to be hke Abraham Lincoln: he shall leave behind him the memory 
of a life made useful by industry, helpful by sympathy, and noble 
by sacrifice. 



28 LINCOLN MHMORIAT. rXlVKRSIT^' 

Here, in tho Ijosoni of the great Api)alafhian region that produced 
and nourished hiu), the i)ubhc spirit, the benevolence, and the sense 
of civic duty of liis countrymen are building for hundreds of thou- 
sands of men and women that may claim a common heritage of human 
qualities with the immortal Lincoln, a seat of useful learning that, 
bearing his name, shall l)ring to them a larger measure of the means 
of knowledge and of intellectual training than he could find, with 
a hope to consecrate a purpose like his own to the acquisition of 
wisdom and the discipline of mind and character to the end of ser- 
vice to the Rej)ublic. 



Words of Encouragement 

Scores of telegrams and letters have been received from promi- 
nent men all over the country, expressing their regret at being unable 
to join in the Cumberland Gap Celebration, and heartily endorsing 
the work of Lincoln Memorial University. 

Chief among them was a message from Robert Todd Lincoln, of 
Chicago, former Secretary of War, and only living son of Abraham 
Lincoln. 

His telegram, and the communications of others who evidenced 
their interest, follow: 

Commendation from Lincoln's Son 

ROBERT TODD LINCOLN, Chicago, lU. 

The work which this school is doing and plans to do strongly 
commends itself to me, as it must to all who realize the value to our 
American institutions of popular and practical education in a com- 
munity of the origin and surroundings of this one. The gathering of 
so large a number of representative men to participate in this event 
indicates the hopeful extent of the growth of the ideal upon which 
this undertaking is founded and is to progress. 

Encouragement from ex-President Taft 

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, New Haven, Conn. 

There is no part of the country or the world where education can 
do so much as in the region for which your University furnishes the 
opportunity for advanced education. The English and Scotch-Irish 
stock that peoples the mountains of Kentucky, Tennessee, North 
Carolina, and South Carolina, resembles the soil of the Imperial 
Valley of California, which needs nothing but water to make it rich 
in the value of its products. This race, without opportunity and 
ignorant, needs but the water of an education to make if flower into 
the most valuable citizenship of this country. 

Rendering Splendid Service 

GOVERNOR MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH, of Pennsylvania 

I have an increasingly abiding confidence in the splendid service 
which this University has rendered and is rendering to the people of 
eastern Tennessee and the country at large. It is this kind of broad, 
humane, wise educational effort that will do more than any other 
agency at work in our country to bring our whole people to a right 
appreciation of the meaning and dignity of our national institutions. 

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30 LINCOLN MEMORIAL IXIVHRSITY 

Lincoln's Fame Grows Wider 

GOVERNOR FRANK O. LOWDEN, of Elinob 

Lincoln's fame grows wider with the years, and an ever-increas- 
ing number of men everj'where join on his birthday to pay homage 
to his memory. ... I know you will have a most successful cele- 
bration, and I beg you to present my most grateful acknowledgment 
to the Committee for its invitation. 

The Vision and Hope of Lincoln 

GOVERNOR ARTHUR CAPPEJl. of Kansas 

I want to commend the spirit of deep patriotism and of venera- 
tion for the memory of the great martyr and benefactor of human- 
kind which finds its expression so fittingly and beautifully in this 
celebration of his natal day. 

May I express the sincere hope that the young men and young 
women who are privileged to be students of this institution may 
appreciate more and more what Lincoln did for the Nation and for 
humanity? . . . This great educational institution stands as a 
monument to the vision and hope of Lincoln and the unwavering 
purpose of General Howard that such a desire should be realized. 

Perpetuates Lincoln's Ideals 

GOVERNOR J. A. A. BURNQUIST, of Minnesota 

You have a wonderful opportunity not only to promote the cause 
of education, as President Lincoln planned, among a class of people 
who can best appreciate it, but to perpetuate the memory and ideals 
of one of the greatest statesmen this country, or any countrj-, has 
produced. 

A Contribution to Humanity 

GOVERNOR JAMES WITHYCOMBE, of Oregon 

I extend heartiest best wishes for the success of the work you are 
now carrying on. The creation and maintenance of educational 
opportunities which shall be open to those of moderate means is 
indeed a high contribution to the cause of humanity and deserves 
commendation and support. 

A High Mission 

WALTER E. EDGE. Atlantic City. N. J. 

As everyone knows, the work of the University has merit, its 
mission is high, and its memorial character is sound and systematic. 
... I know that you will succeed. 



LINCOLN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 31 

Worthy of Enthusiastic Support 

GOVERNOR WOODBRIDGE N. FERRIS, of Michigan 
No other institution in the United States is worthy of kinder and 
more enthusiastic consideration than Lincoln Memorial University. 
If Lincoln's love for humanity dominates the management of the 
Lincoln Memorial University, it is only a matter of time when this 
institution will have the enthusiastic support of the worthiest men 
of America. The purpose of this University overshadows the ends 
and aims of every other institution in this country. 

The Need for Such a School 

GOVERNOR LYNN J. FRAZIER, of North Dakota 

The children of the workers are anxious and ready to be trained 
along special lines, and none are more worthy. Our beloved Lincoln 
was, himself, a child of the common people and saw the need for 
such a school as yours. How fitting that his name should be immor- 
talized in your University ! 

Building Up Good Citizenship 

GOVERNOR ERNEST LISTER, of Washington 

I hope that your institution will prove a strong factor in the 
building up of good citizenship and in affording opportunity for an 
education to many young people who, because of poverty, might 
otherwise be deprived of an education. 

Events of Commanding Importance 

HON. CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, ex- Vice President, of Indianapolis, Ind. 

There are two events which I regard of commanding importance; 
they are the birthdays of Lincoln and McKinley, and I allow no 
slight consideration to stand in the way of sharing in the observance 
of them. 

Nothing More Worth While 

GOVERNOR G. W. CL.\RKE. of Iowa 

I do not know of anything that could be more worth while than 
for one to devote very largely of his time and means to the educa- 
tion of the youth of the region in which the Lincoln Memorial Uni- 
versity is located. There is no work of nobler character and more 
far-reaching in its beneficent results than the education of the children 
of the poor and, perhaps, the less fortunate in life. The elevation of all 
such in any educational way and in the development of their charac- 
ter is a contribution, not only to them, but to the whole country. 



S^ LINCOLN xMEMORIAL rMVKRSITY 

Labor Brief; Accomplishment Immeasurable 

SLMUN GUGGENHEIM, .New York City 

To my mind, Lincoln was the spirit of America. 

Measured by time, his labor was comparatively brief, but its 
accomphshmcnt and still greater promise immeasurable. 

Men are but now discovering that his mind was a great ocean of 
thought that touched all the shores of human progress. 

He believed in the people and reached down his strong hands to 
lift the helpless and oppressed where they could help themselves. 

Through the University, established at his suggestion by General 
Howard, he manifests part of that great spirit which proclaimed that 
the "Nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that 
government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not 
perish from the earth." 

But One Greater Than Lincoln 

Jl'DGE JOHN E. McCALL, Memphis, Tenn. 
There is no character in all the world's history, save one, that 
appeals to and impresses me as does Mr. Lincoln, and I should feel 
greatly honored to have the privilege of attending any gathering 
which had for its purpose the commemoration of the birthday of so 
great a man. 

From a Great Editor 

HARRISON GRAY OTIS, Los Angeles, Cal. 
I convey my respectful salutations and my sincere message of good 
will to yourself, the Trustees of the University, and to the most dis- 
tinguished gentlemen who will be present on that occasion to carry 
out a program which I am sure will be one of transcendent interest 
and worthy of the immortal memory of the marvelous man, states- 
man, and President whom the Nation will never cease to honor. I 
enjoyed the great distinction of serving as a soldier of the Union 
Army on the battlefield of Antietam, September 17, 1862, and on the 
g'-Znd of that month I saw upon the same battlefield the illustrious 
author of the far-reaching Emancipation Proclamation, which bore 
the same date, and obliterated the curse and the shame of human 
slavery from the soil of the Republic, and in the archives of the res- 
cued country recorded its extinction forever. 

The University's Ideals 

MORTLNHCR L. SCHIFF. New York City 
My estimate of the character of Abraham Lincoln is that, I be- 
lieve, of any other American, namely, that he was one of the greatest, 
if not the greatest man this country has produced. His modesty. 



LINCOLN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 33 

his kindliness, and, above all, his sound judgment, were what carried 
this country through the most troublous times it has ever seen. If 
his ideals are those which govern the administration of the Uni- 
versity which bears his name, I have no doubt as to its future. 

From the President of George Washington University 

DR. C. H. STOCKTON, Washington. D. C. 

I know no part of the United States that now needs more thor- 
oughly the uplift of education than the Appalachian district, and I 
am sure that there will be a very great response by the people about 
there to any effort you make for their betterment. 

Excellent Work Being Done 

DR. THOS. D. BOYD, President Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. 
I cannot refrain from commending in the highest terms the excel- 
lent work being done by the Lincoln Memorial University in educat- 
ing the young mountaineers of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, 
and in holding constantly before them the life of Abraham Lincoln, 
as an example of what a sturdy American boy can accomplish by 
strength of will, force of character, and great natural ability. 

No Finer Tribute Can Be Paid 

MAJOR-GENERAL LEONARD WOOD. Governor's Island, N. Y. 

I am deeply interested in the upbuilding of the Lincoln Memorial 
University. I feel sure that no finer tribute can be paid to the mem- 
ory of Abraham Lincoln than through the building up of an institu- 
tion which means so much for a better citizenship. 

An Example of Patriotism 

ADOLPH LEWISOHN. New York City 
I wish you success in your great work which will be an example of 
patriotism and a benefit to the people of this great land. 

No Better People in the World 

CARMI A. THOMPSON. St. Paul, Minn. 
I am in thorough accord with the great work that the University 
has cut out for itself. Perhaps my interest in the work may be in- 
creased because I am a native of the West Virginia mountain dis- 
trict myself. There are no better people in the world than those liv- 
ing in the mountainous districts of Kentucky, West Virginia, and 
Tennessee. For the most part they are pure-blooded Americans of 
Revolutionary stock. All they need to make them leading citizens of 
this country is education. Your institution purposes to supply that 
to them. I shall be pleased to encourage its advancement in every 
way that I can. 



34 LINCOLN MLMOIUAL UNIVERSITY 



A Power for Inspiring Patriotism 

FREDERIC R. COUDERT, New York City 
We are living in a time of great plenty and prosperity, and the 
danger is that we shall not think enough of Lincoln and of all that 
he represented. It is for this reason that the University erected under 
that great name should he a power for inspiring American patriotism 
and cultivating those things that Lincoln stood for. You have chosen 
a most appropriate moment for honoring a man whose life should 
mean as much for America today as it meant in those dark days of 
the early sixties. We were then threatened with very different perils. 
Those of today are perhaps more insidious and more corroding be- 
cause concealed under a more decorative exterior of commercial 
prosperity. 

The American Ideal 

LYMAN ABBOTT, New Y'ork City 
The life of Abraham Lincoln demonstrates that the old-time c&st€ 
and class distinctions have been unjust to the individual and injuri- 
ous to society. They have repressed the development of the indi- 
vidual and have denied to society the invaluable service of great and 
good men. It has, therefore, justified the American ideal, which is 
by means of a public school system, supplemented by private educa- 
tional institutions generously supported, to give to evcrj' boy in 
America a fair chance for the highest and best development of which 
he is capable. There is no more encouraging sign of America's future 
than the educational development of the last fifty years, including the 
development of the free school throughout the Southern States and 
the development of the institutions of the higher learning, both 
academic and industrial, for the boys and girls of every race, class, 
and religious faith. 

Great Leaders Will Come Forth 

BENJAMIN S. IIANCHETT, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Cumberland Gap, the mountain gateway to the old South, under 
the leadership of the Lincoln Memorial University, will be the gate- 
way to the new South where great leaders of men will come forth to 
emulate the deathless example of Lincoln. There is no memorial to 
him who laid the foundation of his education by reading by the light 
of blazing pine-knots more fitting than a university for the j>eople 
from whom he came and whose adversities recall those he heroically 
faced and conquered. 

There is no place in America where there is a more inviting and 
promising field for the development of an American university; it is 
an uncultivated virgin .soil for the production of American culture 
that may arise to influentv the <.leveloj)ment of American democracy 
which in these days is sorely threatened by foes without ami within. 



LINCOLN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 35 

Minister from China Sends Greetings 

HON. B. K. WELLINGTON KOO, Minister from China 
I wish to offer to your University on this memorable occasion my 
sincerest congratulations. May the great institution be forever 
worthy of him whose name it bears and in whose memory it has 
been founded. 

Deserves Cordial and Generous Support 

HON. JOHN K. SHIELDS, Senator from Tennessee 

Your University is doing a magnificent work for Tennessee, 
Virginia, and Kentucky, and deserves a cordial and generous sup- 
port of the people of each state. I will be glad to contribute anything 
I can to the success of the magnificent work you are doing for the 
people. 



The Call of the Lad 

THE most compelling thing in this world, when all is said and 
done, is the Call of Youth. 

"Youth will be served," and should be. 

The fate of the United States and the fate of the world depends 
upon your answer and mine to the call of the boys and girls who 
are to be the men and women of tomorrow. 

We need all the good Americans we can get; we need the new 
stock; we need the best blood the world can give us; and by the same 
token we must not forget the heroic stuff of which our own old revo- 
lutionary character was built. 

Here in these mountains, where Kentucky, Tennessee, and Vir- 
ginia find a common meeting-place beneath the majesty of the 
tumbled Appalachians, there is a struggling college that is battling 
its way to conquest for our country and for all of us. 

It is Lincoln Memorial University. 

Poverty and Neglect, Ignorance and Isolation, Hope against 
Hope, these are the forces Lincoln Memorial is combating, and its 
only ally is the indomitable spirit and uncorrupted Americanism of 
the youth of these mountains. 

The boys and girls reared in this region are the product of the 
same race that bore Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson. The 
one hope of these children of the American race is Lincoln Memorial 
University. Here they have the opportunity to work their way and 
earn as they learn. They come to our doors for uplift and direction, 
ready and willing to make any sacrifice for the chance. 

Alas! Too many of them come for us /to care for — the institu- 
tion has not the physical wherewith to make room for all who apply. 

The need of all needs is expansion, and Lincoln Memorial appeals 
now to you for help to carry on this great work in the name of 
Abraham Lincoln, in his spirit, and for his people. 

Lincoln Memorial appeals to you. 

Each year, with its present utterly inadequate equipment of six 
principal buildings and only twenty small buildings for all purposes, 
this school is educating 700 students; 300 of these are maintained at 
a cost of less than $4 a week, covering everything. And even this 
$4 is earned by the labor of the students themselves. 

These students have no money. Their parents have none. The 
money for expansion must come from you, and we appeal to j^ou for 
it. We ask you in the name of Abraham Lincoln to give your answer 
to this "call of the mountain lad." 

Will you help Lincoln Memorial to go on with this great work? 

We appeal to you as an American — as an American. 

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FORM OF SUBSCRIPTION 

HON. THEODORE E. BURTON 

Treasurer Lincoln Memorial University Endoicment Foundation, 
Merchants National Bank, -ti Wall Street, New York City 

Enclosed find my contribution of $ 



for the needs of the boys and girls being educated by 
the Lincoln Memorial University. 

Name 

A ddress 



Date. 



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Lincoln Memorial University 

Cumberland Gap, Tennessee 



JOIIX WESLEY HILL, D.D.. LL.D. 

Chancellor 

GEORGE ALLEN HL'BBELL, Ph.D. 

Pretident 



TRUSTEES OF THE ENDOWMENT FUND 

SAMTTL P. AVERY HON. ^L\RCUS M. MARKS 

HON. JACOB M. DICKINSON JAMES H. POST 

A. L. G.UIFORD FRANK A. SEIBERLLNG 

THEODORE E. BLUTON, Trcasvrer 

Preaidcnt Merchants National Bunk 
42 Wall Street, New York 



ADVISORY COMMITTEE 



Dr. Wm. Seaman Bainbridge 

Gov. Martlv G. Brumbaugh 

William J. Burns 

Gov. J. A. A. BuRNQUiST 

Hon. C. C. Calhoun 

Gov. Arthur Capper 

Joe Mitchell Chapple 

Henry Clews 

Hon. Bainbridge Colby 

Hon. Bird S. Coler 

Hon. Frederick R. Coudebt 

Gov. J.\ME3 E. Cox 

Walter S. Dickey 

Coleman DuPont 

Gov. Walter E. Edge 

Hon. Woodbridge N. Ferris 

H. S. Firestone 

Edward F. Fletcher 

Hon. George Edmund Foss 

Dr. John II. Girdner 

Hon. Henry S. Gr.\ve3 

Benjamin S. Hanchett 

J. II. IIlMKS 

Sen. Warren G. IIardinq 
Willlvm Loeb, Jr. 
Hon. James T. Lloyd 
IIo.v. William F. McComds 
Hon. Ja&ies B. McCreary 



J. Horace McFarland 

B. Fr.vnk Meb.ane 

RoscoE R. Moody 

Dr. S. J. McPherson 

Hon. Jacob E. Meeker 

Burton F. Peek 

Gov. Em.vnuel L. Philipp 

Hon. Henry R. Rathbone 

Fr.\nklin C. Rutan 

Gov. Tom C. Rye 

Major Louis L. Se-o^ian 

Hon. Leslie M. Shaw 

Sen. Lawrence Y. Sherm-OJ 

Hon. William S. Shields 

Hon. C. B. Slemp 

Sen. William Alden Smith 

Gov. A. O. Stanley 

Nelson Cl.a.rk Stone 

Gov. H. C. Stuart 

Cl.vrence B. Sturges 

Hon. Thomas F. Turner 

Gage E. Tarbell 

Hon. William Hale Thompson 

Hon. Charles .\. Towne 

Sen. Charles E. Townsend 

Sen. James E. Watson 

Hon. W. W. Wilson 

Gen. Leonard Wood 



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